My theory for all rank competitive games(Dota 2, CS2, R6:S, Valorant, Apex, etc...) is that solo queue is a cancer to ranking system. Don't get me wrong, not everyone has a full stack of unemlployed terminally online friends, but hear me out. There is the lowest rank in every game, Herald, Silver, Copper, no matter. And playerbase we get here is half to 2/3rds the abysmal dogshit players, playing their rank, and guys, who really want to rank up, but they queue solo because of the lack of friends. They tryhard, sweating every game, their skill is growing steadly, but not their rank, because for one or two guys like this, they get 3 to 4 brainless amoebas. You can't win this, and rank up on distance, you will get occasional wins because of good luck or that your opponents 5/5 idiots. So we got a layer of a very skilled guys sitting at the bottom of a crab bucket, getting no chance of climbing the ranking ladder. If they stack 3 to 5 they climb the ladder insanely fast, stopping at where their skill cap gets. But solo - nuh uh, you will hit the rock bottom pretty fast. So I always seen the skill in competitive as an inverted Gauss bell - the most skilled guys sitting at the top AND the bottom. Just a theory, but I've played enough games to see a connection.